A while back I introduced you all to Dr. Andreas Gelé, aka The Refrigerator. He is a socially stunted misanthrope with mommy issues and the intellect to act out in the worst ways possible.
I thought I might stat him up for Ubiquity and Hollow Earth Expedition in particular. He seems particularly well suited for this game. Here is some background.
This guy came, literally, out of a nightmare. Around 1982 or so (I was 12) I was hit with a double shot of women being frozen alive, the movies were "In Like Flint" and "Kiss the Girls and Make them Die". It really bugged the hell out of me and gave me nightmares for a long time. Still kind of bugs me. Of course later I learned there is a whole creepy fetish thing related to this. I think my issue is far more basic. I hate being cold and think being frozen is quite possibly the worst thing ever. Then recently I found a cover from the pulp magazine "Horror Stories" from 1937.
The cover is by John Newton Howett and typical pulp tradition it was reused for the first issue of Startling Mystery. That picture deserves a villain. I have not found the issue yet so I can't say if there is a story that goes with that cover. But I have enough of my own nightmare fuel.
History of The Refrigerator
Dr. Andreas Gelé was born to wealth and privilege but never to love. His father was a was a rich industrialist who made his money on the work of others and his mother was a noted and beautiful stage actress. From his father he gained his intellect and from his mother he learned lessons in cruelty.
As his mother aged she became more and more cruel. In his mind's eye he saw her as beautiful. This was reinforced by all the pictures of her on the wall of their estates where she was young, beautiful and happy. Frozen in time. Gelé began to work on a process to forever keep the beautiful women young. He was drawn to beautiful women, and his prestige later as a doctor and his wealth made that easy. But he never could talk to or relate to them having grown up socially stunted. So Gelé embarked on a plan so he could have his desires met.
His first experiments in cryonoics were failures. Animals would not return to life when frozen and even when he perfected the process they still had damage. Finally through a combination of fluids and gases at super cooled temperatures. He tested it first on his hated father. He died soon after he was free of the ice, but Gelé expected that since the old man's heart was now weak. He froze his mother next. He was overjoyed that the ice preserved her remaining beauty.
All his research though has left his fortunes depleted so he robs banks to keep himself funded for more research and to keep his "beauties" on ice.
Dr. Andreas Gelé
Motivation: Power (Preserve Beauty, he seeks power over something he can't control.)
Style: 2 Health: 5
Primary Attributes
Body: 3
Dexterity: 3
Strength: 2
Charisma: 1
Intelligence: 5
Willpower: 3
Secondary Attributes
Size: 0
Move: 5
Perception: 8
Initiative: 8
Defense: 6 (3 + 3)
Stun: 3
Skills (base + level)
Science: Engineering 5 7 12 (6)
Science: Cryonics 5 8 13 (6)* Not in any of the books.
Medicine 5 7 12 (6)
Firearms 3 4 7 (3)Talents
Skill Mastery Science
Resources
Weapon 1 (Freeze gun: +1 bonus to stun opponent)
Refuge 1 (Secret laboratory: +2 Skill bonus when inside)
Flaw
Mental, Obsession: Obsessed with preserving beauty in young women.**
(** There might be issues with setting his Flaw so close to his Motivation, but I would play his Motivation to build better freezing machines and steal more money. His Flaw causes him to seek out attractive women even when he could be caught easier.)
Weapons
Freeze gun 4 N 0 8 N (4) N
Punch 0 N 0 0 N (0) N
Freeze Gun
Special weapon
Can do lethal on non-lethal damage.
Still playing around with the stating of characters. But I am getting the hang of it.
